Abandoned - Frederick Towne Mall
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In the heart of Frederick, Maryland sits the now infamous Frederick Towne Mall. From its rocky start as an emerging shopping centre in the 70's, to a dead mall eventually becoming one of the most surreal abandoned malls in America today.
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Fun fact: The old Hoyt's cinema in this mall has been reopened and is doing pretty well, it's probably the first successful reopened business in the whole property.
And they opened another theater so maybe things are turning up
that's awesome
It's all one Theater called Warehouse Cinemas, I've been to it, it's actually a pretty nice Theater. Definitely glad to see new life in the area though.
Hoyts was my first job and I was a true mall rat here, so this video had some nice nostalgia 🥰
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I live a short walk away from there and I used to go there as a kid, I remember playing at the arcade, eating at the long john silver, seeing, and watching movies with my mom, now is just depressing for me. And The Francis Scott Key mall isn't looking too hot either.
Cool in the Summer, Warm in the Winter, putting the first few coffin nails into the OG indoor Strip Mall: Frederick Towne Square... Those synapses have not fired in 25-35, 40 years, Thanks John Spade! Excellent work.
For well over a decade Frederick Towne Mall (FTM) was the Center of our World for years. We saw Star Wars there. Taught myself BASIC on a Radio Shack's TRS-80, got big on Pappy's Pepperoni Pizza & Root Beer (Pitchers), Annual Sneakers from Chanticleer Shoes, LEVI's (Dungarees and matching Jacket) from that clothing store near the Friendly's, Ice Cream Store (I preferred the ICE cream from the Soft Pretzel place), Free samples at Hickory Farms. Long John Silvers was the first place to offer Boneless White Meat Chicken Strips.The toy store was price prohibitive and too low tech (my Atari came form K Mart.) MY Sister got her "Lion's Letter Jacket" as did every Field Hockey to Football Frederick County Freshman Girl & Guy's did (Jocks!). Several Schools of Freshwater Fish, Cecil the 6 inch Boa constrictor (grew to 8 feet and was adopted by the National Zoo when I went off to war). Some other small furry creatures and our Toy Poodle all came from Drs. Pet Center. If you wanted to get rid of your kids for the weekend, well at least for all of Saturday. The biggest danger at the time at the FTM was attempting to take down the reigning title holder and still un-defeated Time Out's TIC-TAC-TOE Champion Chicken (LIVE). Need a break from reality and the KIDS? This is where our Parents were ditched, it was the safest place to drop your kids off for the day before dropping them off at Skate Haven for the night. Absolutely fascinating!
Those were the days. I really miss having a Long John Silvers in Frederick lol
Yeah Frederick is changing rapidly
The arcade was called time out. Many afternoons there. Miss that place.
I just checked the Francis Scott Key Mall on google maps they have an indoor view of the mall looks like that mall is still doing at least ok. I did not see many vacant stores.
@5:09
First, honored to make your video. I'm the guy on the left side with the annoyed look on his face. What a night that was. Secondly, no we weren't there for copper or any belongings, we were just there to explore. The Frederick Towne Mall at that point was mostly just broken objects everywhere from vandals and jerks and trash from places. We definitely weren't the only ones going in. 2 of the 3 of us had grown up in that Mall and just like the RUclipsrs today we were seeking out to make a video of our own. Unfortunately we didn't really think of any reprecussions, just had a blast seeing our childhood home one more time as the Wal*Mart announcement was rumored to be happening. If interested, I have the full story of that night as well as video we shot of us just dicking around and having a blast in our old stomping grounds just like we would have if we were still kids.
Thank you for making this video, I appreciate making a cameo in someone else' video, a lot has changed in the 5 years since for me, in good ways.
@Bright Sun Films
@User Probably found wrong information. We were charged with breaking in but never took a thing
Surrrrreeeeeeeee
@@aidenzurk7726 great response, very insightful
Fredrick Towne Mall looks like South Dekalb Mall in Atlanta. Only a few eateries and a movie theater are still there, and the Covid-19 panic is killing that off.
Question: what’s the most unsettling thing that you found in the mall?
Update: The mall will become an entertainment center and is getting renamed District 40.
I will believe that when I see it.
Legit, also where you from. I live in hullcrest
Is that mall still up last time I was there when in the Boscov's
@@dansimon1100 Yes. The mall is still standing, and the Boscov's is still open for business.
@@SchuminWeb hell yeah I watched the video one time all the guy that went to a Boscov's and I had a restaurant inside of it I thought that was pretty cool I filmed a little bit of the mall long time ago it's on my RUclips channel if you can find it
Leaving the lights on in these places is an insane waste of energy.
not to mention the costs of keeping said lights on. It was already financially struggling.
The HVAC was kept on to ventilate the place. The lights being on seems completely unnecessary...
And makes global warming worst
The anchor stores were connected to the malls fuze box they have to pay for the power of the whole mall
@@TheKeeperMadz Global warming isn't real bro
Just informing anyone who sees this video and decides to go: The Frederick police have installed cameras under the owners and you will most likely get caught.
Would the owners give permission to photographers for entry? I'm assuming not, but nonetheless, I'm curious.
Bribe the rent-a-cop.
Jude Abijah they won't
Ian V. Raybeck no. I was told no because they said that if they let me in with permission once they would have to let everyone that asked in because people would argue over it
Ah, the classic answer. They don't *have* to do anything, privately owned means they can allow or refuse whoever they see fit.
Havent watch it yet but its by BSF so its going to be 10/10
Indeed
The Crude Brothers How is that hot sauce
More Films - Diamondblade Accurate. This was great!
5:19 Kind of random, but I know exactly how that wooden plank got there.
Before I snuck in, my dad’s friend got inside by carefully removing the glass on the door, but when he tried to put it back in, the glass broke. Now you know why a piece of wood is in an abandoned shopping mall.
🤣🤣🤣
Been in there a few times recently because people keep smashing the glass.
Nice to know that the remaining anchor stores aren’t warehouses.
Amazon: (Fortnite dances on dead malls).
They are amazing dept stores! My fave in frederick is boscovs
Oh boy I never expected our shitty dead mall to ever get covered by you.
Fun fact a friend of mine got the cops called on him here because he, his sister and another friend all walked into the radio shack at the same time and the employees were so freaked out they though they were being robbed. That's how dead that mall is. Meanwhile FSK is doing okay last I checked, but it's still not what it was 15 years ago
Same
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Same I didn’t expect to see this either It’s small and it’s rotting in the ground
Do an "Abandoned" on Toys R Us when they file for Chapter 7
When they file, sure
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Jedi Master Joseph and Darth Aidan They’re filing for chapter 11 I believe.
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I used to go there all the time in the 90's as a teenager. no idea it was dangerous.
Everywhere was dangerous in the 70's, the crime really started post 2008 when all the stores left
Tiberius Hrafn-Úlfur I'm surprised that my parents survived the '70s considering how dangerous America was.
I knew the head of security there. He said guards would get robbed doing outside patrols. This was after the mall closed.
In the early 2000’s a classmate of mine was jumped and beaten pretty badly.
Grew up across the river in Sterling, VA. Mom used to take me there as a kid in the mid-90's. I never felt threatened or scared. It was just a mall.
Just a few hours after Dan Bell's dead mall, we have abandoned episodes from Jake. My weekend is early
Hanif Pandu new proper people video as well !
"We didn't spend a lot of time in here, because I was very nervous. It just seemed to easy to get in."
Then proceeds to go back at an even worse time of the day. Wtf?
2 OR 3 IN THE MORNING?! NOPE!
It's awesome to see a shout out to Dan Bell 😀 .
gokusondbz definitely. I love his videos!!
gokusondbz Nothing unusual as Jake became the producer of Dan Bell after a certain time in the past. If someone Jake would shout out is to "his former boss"...
Heck yeah, just what I needed today!
yeah same!
Me to bro
Hell to tha yeahhhh😂👍🏾
Love the profile picture👌
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I would have to disagree with the notion that this mall had no attachment to people; at least it does for me. This was my childhood mall and I have so many memories of going here. It was closer than Francis Scott Key and it was the only place to get Long John's Silvers in the area. We would drive the 20 minutes from my house just to get some! They had an amazing space that served boardwalk style fries for a while in the late 90's and I frequented the arcade while it was here, which I believe was called Pocket Change. Although that was also the name of the Francis Scott Key arcade too. I remember in my late teens lining up outside of Hoyts Cinemas to watch the midnight showing of the first Spider-Man film and the release day showings for Rush Hour and The Incredibles. In the late 90's again, I would eat at the Friendly's then walk into the Kaybee Toys next door to buy Transformers, well to have my mom buy Transformers. There was a tiny pretzel place at the far end where Boscov's where we would never leave the mall without getting an order of pretzels and cheese. My parents would always get their watch batteries replaced at the watch store that was next to the Hair Cuttery and I remember watching a cousin of mine perform in a school concert right there on the stage in front of the Boscov's. The Montgomery Wards was were my parents bought their first Big Screen Tube TV and the first place I played an Nintendo 64 Demo Kiosk. I will always remember Mario thanking me for playing and ask who was next :)
I have so many memories of this place and its so surreal to see a channel I follow take the time to produce such an informative video on it. Just seeing the footage gives me goosebumps as I recognize all the storefronts and even the tile floor where I would carefully hop on individual colors playing the "floor is lava" game. Thanks for bringing back some happy memories to me!
Hot Sams was the pretzel place.
Thank you so much for a to playing a my game a
K&K / Kay Bee Toys and Time Out arcade. What else does a little kid need?
Omg thank you went there all throughout the 90s and early 2000 until we moved to Ohio
Me too❤️ memories.
I’m from Frederick. I used to go to this mall when I was a kid, even the movie theater. Couldn’t believe there was video on this!
Dark Moses i remember going to that movie theather too as a kid and walking into the mall and seeing like 7 stores throught the entire place
I stood in line to see Star Wars at that mall. It wasn't Hoyts in 1977.
At least we still have FSK
For a short period before they closed this mall it was the place to hang out... That and the ice skating rink. FSK was always better though.
Francis Scott Key Mall also had a Hoyts now it's shadowland and a restaurant now it was a 3 screen movie theater I took my exs there and I went to all of the Hoyt's in Frederick Maryland.
I remember going inside there not knowing it was half closed, to look for a bathroom. It was crazy to see it so empty, my dad and I laughed and said it looked like a zombie game.
I wanted to say that it is awesome to find someone else who is into abandoned retail and the story behind them! I love your seires and I cant wait for more content ! I have watched your veidos and seen such growth !!!! you are awesome and keep moving foward !
Hey Jake, I was wondering if you would be interested in the amusement park "Pixieland". It was a park located next to the highway when entering Lincoln City in Oregon. My parents went when they were kids and it seems the park has some interesting history behind it. Apparently, the park was only open for about 5 years or so starting in 1969 and closing in 1975. It's been sitting dormant for years and they have sold parts to other parks like Lagoon in Utah.
Great video as always
might be a necro, but i would love to see this
You should do the Houston Astrodome
That or Astroworld
Or both
Could the Universe of Energy at EPCOT work for an Abandoned video?
Yes!!! Because it is technically abandoned if you just count the ride part and not the building.
John Spade yes! More Disney Abandoned vids!
Omg yess! That ride was one of my favorites as a kid!
Also, the last time I went on it was in September 2016, and it didn't seem to be in the best condition. I also noticed that the Ellen animatronic wasn't there. I'm pretty sure they covered it up with rocks or something.
John Spade many
I worked in that mall in the 90s and they were some of the best days of my life. I worked at Camelot music and a few years later, RAVE clothing.
Never knew about this place, but with my mom growing up in the town right over during the 70s and 80s, this definitely was somewhere she probably went. . .
I just don't get how Mall of America secured its place as probably the most thriving mall ever.
+Wizard Hoovy Massive, appeals to not just retail, in a large city
Bright Sun Films Personally I have gone to that mall, but compare it to some of the other massive malls that met their downfall. And as always, nice video.
+Wizard Hoovy it also is a tourist attraction which sets it apart from almost every other mall out there. I visited there just because I was in the area and the only reason I went is because it was the mall of America so I don't think you can really compare it to other malls, especially ones that don't have the same caliber stores/restaurants and aren't in areas with lots of people.
I probably spent about $100,000 at Mall of America since it opened lol.
because it's not just a mall, it's an INDOOR YEAR ROUND CONSTANT TEMPERATURE THEME PARK, no baking in 90+ degree heat of Disney World summers and no worry of how cold it is outside limiting the times of year you can go (provided roads are passable).
Can you make a cancelled episode on Google Glass?
Yes plz!
Christopher Cruz they cancelled it? :/
They still produce them. They just started development on a new model
ThatAussieGirl they didn't. They still produce them and they are starting production of a new one.
America, like Canada is facing a housing crisis, being that there's too much demand and not enough supply of available homes. I think all these malls offer immense redevelopment opportunities to transform empty spaces and rotting parking lots into mixed used neighbourhoods that could bring new people, money, and life into down-in-the-dumps areas.
Cool idea, lets use your money.
Harrison William Thorburn that’s funny, because in Connecticut we have too many houses and not enough people. Like we have such high taxes that people are leaving, or moving into smaller houses. Our schools are made for a larger group of people, but we have so few kids compared to older years.
Like the 2 comments above imply, I think you might have a gossly oversimplified view of economics & real estate development.
It is not as simple as building "just beacuse". For example, China have both ghost cities & homelessness epidemic... at the same time... in the same regions.
Sometimes, like in Vacouver, it is result of perverse incentives. Local goverments recive huge tax benefits for the high prices of artificial monopolies. The local goverment have only to ensure to restric the supply as much a possible.
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Harrison William Thorburn I mean the more people you have the more stores you need, malls conveniently put a bunch of stores in one big building.
Unless You Wanna Live Next A Home Depot
Its cool to see our local mall on your channel. The biggest loss when it closed for me was Long John Silvers... i miss that place.
Homeless Shelter
Affordable Housing
Job Training Institute
My MD tax dollars pays for useless buildings
@police-and-military-are-welfare-whores man you were fucked up when you a kid huh?
This is kinda depressing. This is the first video you've done, and that I've seen, of a place I actually went to and remember. I live near Frederick, and visited this mall regularly. I had no idea about the crime, I thought it was a nice mall. The last time I was there was in 2009, and I thought it looked rundown, but that's how a lot of retailers look in this area. I had no idea of the financial problems it was having. Makes me worry about the mall closest to me - the Valley Mall in Hagerstown, MD - as it is starting to decline too, having just lost its Sears, and Bon-Ton closing soon. Anyway, thanks for the video, and for the objective look at the history of this place 👍
How is the mall in Hagerstown doing? I hear one was torn down, not sure if it was that one.
Bon-Ton used to be Eyerly's. Anyone remember ?
I think your obsession with abandon and bankrupt places is, you enjoy the failing of others. Anyways, great video. Love the channel.
I know these movies can’t be easy to make but awesome job I wish it was possible to make them more often
God I've lived in Frederick all of my life and never knew about the history of this mall. I literally live less than 10 minutes away and literally pass it almost every day.
why is it so violent over there?
@Bill Williams Funny enough, I was just talking to my parents about the overuse of the word "literally". Now I look like a hypocrite lol
same
@@kylielilyanastultz2101 literally same?
@@raccoon681 i replied same to martin about living in frederick all my life
The story of the mall closing is exactly the same one happening to Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
I go wheaton mall
Lake forest is really far for some people like me. I live just outside DC and it’s a long ride
@@mr_mikegar321 wheaton is uhhh oof
@@alexmackall9700 there's plenty of other malls like Montgomery Mall of I-270 or like Bethesda Row, Tysons (though that is also far)
최효진 ya ik but taking public transportation isn’t the best but I still take it
Great video Jake. Almost can smell the interior.
I really enjoyed this episode. Good work... Is there any possibility of you covering Zellers (Canadian retailer if I’m not mistaken) in the future? One of my favourite places to go to growing up!
FaZe M3RK he did in his target canada video
Briefly, yes. Didn;t cover how or why Zellers got to the point of getting bought out and run into the ground. Same with Hills and Zayre, other brands that declined, merged, and flopped (both taken out by Ames). Zayre is interesting as they founded TJ Maxx and ultimatly split off moved their main capital to it, which left the original Zayre as the actual spinoff which was soon bought by Ames.
FaZe M3RK your profile XD 👏👏👏 😂😂😂
God, that just gave me flashbacks, man. Sad...
Absolute MAD LAD man I miss Zellers
I may have been there when I was little. Definitely have been to FSK Mall though. Had a really awkward first date there in 2006.
@Ghecko I hope you're well, Jaime.
Being a millennial who grew up in Frederick, I frequented this mall in its waning years. It had a certain charm to it right up to the day the interior between the anchor stores was closed up. I was honestly surprised to see you cover this, pleasantly surprised.
I live really close and I’ve been getting into urbex, I wanted to go here because I saw the old entrance was there and know people that used to go to it but I found out it now has alarms at the entrances but heard there were RUclips videos of the inside so I’m glad to be finding some wish I could go inside
Just finished binge watching these videos and now there's a new one
When you see that Bright Sun Films has uploaded a new video, your day just became brighter
I know that's crazy
Abandoned - Toys R Us coming soon?
Dusty vHD they are currently filing a chapter 11 bankrupcy, which is done to restructure in threating times. When they file for a chapter 7 they would be done for and warrant a video.
Update about Toys R Us: Now they're officially dead. (in the US at least)[I guess that doesn't really count since they operate internationally too - I believe stores in the UK and stores in other countries are still operating]
All Toys R Us closed mid April in UK.
3:30 “You will be trespassed from the mall...” 😂
And the “Spanish” is even worse!
Antonio Tejada I can only imagine what the Spanish version says.
What is the literal translation?
Those sorts of signs are when you know that the mall is dead and buried. Those are extremely tacky, and a healthy mall would *never* post something like that.
“oH SHIT NOT SPANISH!!”
@@hellothere5843
" No violation
Do not participate
In this section is
Closed"
That's the literal translation
5:19 Kind of random, but I know exactly how that wooden plank got there.
Before I snuck in, my dad’s friend got inside by carefully removing the glass on the door, but when he tried to put it back in, the glass broke. Now you know why a piece of wood is in an abandoned shopping mall.
The amount this channel has grown since I first join is phenomenal.
Frederick represent!!
Adam Middletown represent lol
New market in the house
Walkersville!! ❤️😂
Urbana represent!
Adam yeeet
It's odd seeing indoor shots of this abandoned mall when I was in it a few years ago...
I live about 5 minutes away I also remember going there as a kid, now the only part left is Boscovs, I used to wonder why it closed when I was little but later I didn’t care about it this video give me more insight to it.
I frequented this mall in the 1980s, good times!
if I could recommend a couple of abandoned places in my hometown Staten Island, we have an abandoned ship graveyard and asylum.
sean14sc whats the ship grave called, or coordinates
Hey I’m from Frederick!
Please do Centralia, Pennsylvania?
How about the Chambersburg Mall? 40 minutes north of Frederick MD. The Chambersburg Mall is an absolute shithole
Thank you for this, didn't realize anyone cared about this old Mall anymore. Went here a ton back in the 90s, everythign was pretty accurate that you posted, but we all new it was going to die by 2000. This was a place of many, many childhood memories. I won a Pinwood derby years ago here, had many family visits and other activities. The whole area had crime issues that was the eventual reason my family moved to somewhere nicer in Frederick County.
But, my point to this is that there is someone that cares! Seeing these videos broke my heart just a bit, it used to be a good place, but it fell victim to crime and went downhill.
Anyone saw the vandalized mirror? 8:20
😂😂
Lol pp
arpy was
I would love to go in an abandoned mall with an insanely loud speaker, a ton of friends and get hyped with some insanely hype music
@OG_ trashcan ayo u ok bro
Lmao this makes me believe you actually have no friends. As bad as that sounds, I’d definitely be down to do this lol
@@DTS214 yeah I have no friends so I mean you right
You can ask to they may let you and you make ba RUclips channel
Please do Chippewa Lake Park!! I live about 10 minutes away from the abandoned park and want to know more about it.
Oh cool! An Abandoned episode on a place I've actually been to a BUNCH of times before (both before and after its closure)! So awesome!
I don't know if this place would be considered abandoned, but could you do a video on "The American Dream" project New Jersey? The Mall broke ground in 2002 and still hasn't opened.
It's opening on October 25th of this year.
Tom Lindsay - maybe "American Nightmare" or "Meadowlands Xanadu" (there's a lot of story into the latter name) will qualify as ABANDONED in a number of years (it re-reopened on October 1st, 2020).
Worse of all the owner (same as Mall of America in MN and others) is planning another mall of that scale in Miami, FL.(with 2 malls > 2 million sq. ft. already there it looks like a WHITE ELEPHANT even before it starts to build).
I’ve seen Dan Bell’s video on this abandoned mall and it’s very good and interesting. Well worth a watch.
Dan Bell has a very "Robert California" way of speaking.
Yeeeeeeeeees 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I got into a case of Australian reds and... how should I say this... Colombian whites.
Oh wow, they dying mall by me was just bought by a company from Florida too! I keep saying the mall will be abandoned soon, but hopefully this turns it around.
I live for your guys videos. The abandoned series is so addicting, i love the retail ones alot. Amazing video BSF lots of love ❤
+Alayna Claremont Thank you so much!!
Ah, I remember hanging out in this place in my highschool days in the early 2000s. Great to see the Long John Silvers really was unchanged from the first day this place opened, as we had suspected. I spent so, so many quarters in the arcade.
I went back a few years after it had mostly died, the only store that I remember being open was the Hallmark store, it was very surreal.
This is how toronto malls are becoming. Groups of youth are doing crime in the malls
JREVY22 which malls in Toronto Canada?
Frank Denardo yeah I’m with frank I want to go do crime with youths
Bill Williams Yeah it's le ebil brown people and not lack of morality
A little update on this mall, it’s actually been renamed “District 40” and it has opened up a movie theater!
Your videos are always very interesting. ☺️
A fair amount of my childhood was spent here, watching Ice Age in the theater with my best friend and tagging along my mom as she did her Christmas shopping there.
So bizarre.
Nothing wrong with what you said you were interested in. They actually sound like quite interesting subjects to look at. Plus these abandoned videos are brilliant!!
I went here recently and here are my findings:
- boarded up but can enter from rear
- someone was killed in the movie theatre but all rooms in there are empty
- some new leases are opening on the front
- a bit more security
Ayyy, I go to Francis Scott key mall! I think they are thinking of renovating it though since there is new houses popping up near it with a bunch of young families 😂
Neat video! My friend used to live in Fredrick so it was interesting to hear about this
Also first. Sorry had to do it lol
How did you post this 2 days ago?
Stacky I was just about to ask that.
TheCookingDojo How is that possible?! It was uploaded today!!!
He is a patreon supporter so he gets the videos early
HoweSound ohhh. Alright. Thanks for clearing that up for us!
As someone said 8 months ago, Warehouse Cinema moved in during the pandemic and is doing well. As well as Home Depot. The rest of the building is still just sitting there and I'd love to see what it's like inside now.
In my fictional world, this place never gets abandoned and still successful
There is now a new movie theater there Warehouse Cinemas, and a few restaurants but the main mall is still abandoned.
i live around 3 minutes from here and passing by it every day and going there as a kid just makes it more and more surreal. i remember i was around like 11 or so when it closed for good and seeing it so vacant just blew my mind at the time and still does to this day
Strange how this mall was dead on entry. It didn't even get to have a hay day before the trouble started. I couldn't help but notice that about 20 years of time had to be skipped in the information, I'm assuming because it was either not noteworthy or it was all the same problems on repeat.
Anyway, if you want another mall to talk about, try the Plaza Mayor at Crossroads Mall in Oklahoma. It's been plagued with problems for as long as I can recall. Lots of gang activity and other issues. I don't remember if it's been shut down yet, but it's been pretty much abandoned. It used to be the place to go, but now I think that there may only be about 3 to 5 tenants left, if that. Some of its competition has been the Penn Square, Quail Springs, and Sooner Fashion Malls. It just might make for an interesting video to look at how comparatively similar they all are or have been and why Crossroads failed so severely.
It was just announced that the Plaza Mayor at the Crossroads Mall is being closed down on October 31st, 2017. It may have a high school built in its place. It changed ownership a few years back and it just isn't working. It's been mostly dead for some time now and the owners just can't afford to continue paying for it.
From a fellow Oklahoman, Plaza Mayor AND Heritage Park in Midwest City would be cool ones to see. However, Midwest City just announced HUGE plans for Heritage Park so not sure how much longer it will sit abandoned.
HowlingWolfArt im from frederick and trust me this mall did have its hay day he missed some of the other problems that its has like that fact it was built on a flood plan and every big rain did damage or the fact that it was built at the end of 40 not closer to the highway or that its in the poor area of frederick fsk mall was in a prime location because the rapid development in the area and had good stuff go around it like great restraunts target home depot lowes and it was right off of 2 major highways that go to dc and baltimore
This reminds me of the University mall here in Tampa. It was really nice in the early 2000’s but slowly went down hill and there’s few stores there now and people are afraid to shop there because their car might get hijacked
Hi Jake love your vids
Thanks so much!
Bright Sun Films No problem!
Great video as per usual, Jake. I miss Time Out. I grew up a mallrat. When it was hot out we went to malls for air conditioning. In the 70s and 80s kids went to malls to smoke butts. As public cigarette smoking went away mall popularity declined as well. İt's no coincidence. I was in this mall on some road trip when it was fully functional. I hadn't heard that it went out. It always makes me sad when a nice mall closes down.
I remember watching this with my mom and grandma who lived in Fredrick, but we moved a few years before it closed down.. good memories but sad seeing my mom seeing her old mall and grandmas.. thank you for showing the past for us all.
its weird how francis scott key mall is still open and busy guess they won
This is really the oddest thing to come across!
After living in Maryland for 11 years, The oldest memories I have of this mall was Bon-Ton’s closure, an old arcade machine and the Hallmark; I had no idea the Hallmark closed down, and I’m honestly surprised Boscov’s is still around! I also kinda-sorta remember this store that sold various luggage for travelling...
I'm on my way to Fredrick now. I will check it out
Is it just me or did that mall just die immediately like man it didn’t even last a few years at least Randell park and rolling acres had a good life unlike this mall
The developments that were built near the mall at about the same time in the 70's were immediately ghetto areas.
I may be mistaken, but I seem to recall Frederick Towne Mall initially being an open air mall that wasn't enclosed until later. As such, it always seemed a little off to me. After it was later revamped, it was a decent mall for a time. However, then it started it's decline. Was it the crime? Perhaps. It also didn't help that there was an incrediblle amount of building going on in Frederick which produced a lot of retail space that needed to be filled. Since moving to Frederick in the late 80's, there has been an explosion of growth within a 2 mile radius of FSK mall. Restaurants kept popping up along the edge of FSK mall. Two strip malls across from FSK. Another strip mall nearby anchored by Best Buy and Khol's with a Walmart next door. To the south is Westview mall, and it just seems to keep growing. There are other examples elsewhere, but the point is there was a lot of options for retailers and customers and it just killed FTM.
Frederick native here, Francis Scott Key Mall was always superior to FTM. Though FTM did have a pretty cool mall Santa display around the holidays. I only really have memories of its decline. I remember learning to drive in its large empty parking lot though.
Robert Bauer even in the 90’s people only went to the movie theater and maybe stopped into Wards or Long John Silvers.
Why in the world did Frederick need 2 malls? This is one factor why malls are closing there were too many of them.
There is some truth to that I am not denying that I said that one factor not the factor there is a difference why malls are closing is because there were too many of them. Why in the world would a city of 70,000 need 2 malls? Another example would be there is a mall in Elkhart Indiana and right next door in South Bend another mall. Why would both cities need a mall that is why one is a dead mall.
as a 16 year old that lives in frederick, FSK sucks now
I'd love to see you do an episode on Martinsburg Mall (Martinsburg, WV). It's got an interesting history having been built between two other malls in other states on I-81 and the way it transitioned to a shopping center by tearing down the abandoned "mall" part of the structure but keeping the anchor stores. The present day Foxcroft Towne Center remains oddly designed as a result of this.
I worked at the JCP Home Store while putting myself through college. Yes, Home Store, lol, because that anchor store at one point split into home goods & clothing. The clothing headed to the FSK mall while the home goods stayed behind. This led to many years of the most annoying question for Home Store employees, “where are your clothes?” 😂 The salon was there too. Eventually they merged both stores in the FSK mall & sold the space to Boscovs.
But that store location was a fun place to work, all kinds of random hiding spots, etc. 😬
This is so cool. I drive by that mall all the time when I go to Frederick, had no idea that huge abandoned looking building off the Golden mile was it. The interior reminds me of the backrooms. Maybe I should go explore it one day lol
This just kinda makes me sad. I used to work in this mall when I was a teenager and they're some of the best memories of my childhood. The subway back in the late 90s back when the mall and that side of town was still kinda thriving.
Yes another abandoned video these always get me excited.
I've been binge watching this channel (love it), but it wasn't until my second viewing of this one and a quick investigation on Google Maps that I realized that I'd totally been in that Home Depot probably about a dozen times.
I used to watch your videos pretty much every day and just started again yesterday, I remember you saying on snapchat that you were posting soon and didn't realize it was today, what a pleasant surprise!! awesome video as always Jake, also loved that you had Dan Bell as a guest!
We lived in the nearby Baltimore suburbs, and would take treks to "Fredneck" every once in a while. This mall started getting really creepy in the early 2000s. Can't say any more without getting my comment deleted, lol.
There's tons of abandoned stuff in Frederick, MD. I wish more explorers would look into it.
3:57 that looks so.......2006
So frickin' awesome! I'm from Frederick and remember Frederick Towne Mall and the golden mile! I grew just 5 miles from there and can't believe how bad it has gotten! One thing that isn't said much is the flooding problem in the back side near hoyts cinema entrance. However FSK Mall was the mall to be added so that rang the death toll for this mall.
But everything else on The Golden Mile seems to be bustling. They all just agree they hate that mall.
I love and am fascinated with defunct and abandoned retail and businesses!!! I love your channel!!
I went to Frederick a few years back and to be honest I wish I could remember this place and I wish I could have gone in. Damn.
Just moved to the area. Been super curious about this mall and the inside of it. It’s 4 mins from my house. Just this past Friday I noticed on the back mall entrance some had smashed the glass. That night I just poked my head in and looked around. The next morning after losing some sleep went back went inside but not all the way. Played the little piano in the middle and rolled out. It’s a crazy place to be alone. This morning still extremely curious about the rest of the place finally walked the whole thing. It’s definitely worse now than the most recent videos I could from 6 years ago. A lot of debris from the construction of them adding a bowling ally and pinball arcade to the old bon ton. That whole middle area of the main stretch was a big pile of stuff. The blue neon room was exactly the same.
Have you ever been since this comment? I really want to check it out myself but idk if it’d be safe or not. I also live very close and was enamored by the footage of the blue neon room